Dipankar Gupta

Corruption can be handled in two ways, a bottom-up approach which reaches out as a larger meaning of corruption prevention, a top-down approach which begins with law, says Dr. Kiran Bedi, a prominent activist in the Anna movement against corruption.

From Lokpal to poll funds: Challenges for the next PM

Here are the issues addressed in the course of a panel discussion anchored by founder and editor, Network18 Raghav Bahl, in which former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, author Gurucharan Das, professor of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University, Dipankar Gupta and Think India Foundation, CEO, Dhiraj Nayyar took part in.

2014 Polls: Consensus, growth key for PM chair, say experts

Kumar Ketkar of Dainik Divya Marathi, Dipankar Gupta, former professor of sociology at JNU and Rajdeep Sardesai, managing editor, CNN-IBN concur, on CNBC-TV18's Indianomics, that the ability to build consensus and project a focus on growth is what will ensure electoral victory.

Anna against Congress: Wise move or bad mistake?

Is team Anna justified in claiming that Anna is above Parliament? On CNBC-TV18's special show India Tonight, Chief Editor of Divya Marathi, Kumar Ketkar, the well-known sociologist and now also Director of Reserve Bank of India, Dipankar Gupta and the President of Loksatta, Jayaprakash Narayan discuss Anna and his new leg to the movement.

RBI reconstitutes board, appoints 7 new directors

The government has reconstituted the board of Reserve Bank Of India and has appointed seven new directors, reports CNBC-TV18. These directors include M Rao (Chairman- Gmr Group, Anil Kakodkar (Former Chairman- Atomic Energy Commission) and Kiran Karnik (Former Chairman-Nasscom).

The last word: Anna Hazare's fast and the media

As Anna Hazare's fast-unto-death comes to an end, Karan Thapar enquires into the way the media has covered it. Has it been treated as a spectacle or has it been fully understood and properly analysed?

Egypt Crisis: Can something similar happen in India?

If like me you have spend the last few days glued to television mesmerised by the popular uprising in Tunisia and now Egypt you are bound to ask yourself a question: can something similar happen in India.